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...went into every one of North Carolina's 100 counties, returned with $5,500,000 to present to his boss, President Harry Chase (now chancellor of N.Y.U.). The opinions he formed on that trip, on what his state needed, have made him a hair shirt to reactionary Tar Heel industrialists ever since. Many of the state's progressive labor laws were incubated...
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, a jolly, round (270 Ibs.) "git-tar"-strumming balladeer, sang it on the radio, in nightclubs, on records and on Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land!). He made it a hit, and it helped make him one. He called it an "insect song," just one of 350 ballads he had picked up while bumming around the U.S. singing (TIME, July 27, 1942). This month The Blue-Tail Fly turned up in a Burl Ives collection of rediscovered ballads (The Wayfarin' Stranger; Leeds Music Corp., $1). And last week Burl sang it for the movies. Only...
...H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
...French fared even worse. Some of their importations survived (portage, grand rapids, mile, prairie), but by the time a few generations of American settlers had gone to work on them, L'eau Froide (cold water) was Low Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen...
...three bridges still standing. Under cover of darkness at Ürdingen, 19 U.S. volunteers ventured out on the Adolf Hitler Autobahn bridge - fully aware that the Germans might blow it at any moment - to find and cut the demolition wires. They were silhouetted in the light of burning tar and chased back off the bridge by enemy gunfire; minutes later the bridge was blown...